Dan "Nostradamus" [*] Minette wrote: > > So, one could extrapolate to a world where: > > 1) NATO is effectively broken > NATO _is_ broken. France and Germany had better leave NATO and rebuild the Warzaw Pact with the Sovi.. ops... Russia.
> 2) The UN is relegated to the same importance of the League of Nations > Good riddance. The UN is worse, because they think they are the world g*vernment > As a result, I see two possibilities, based on whether the US is sucessful > or unsucessful in managing the peace. > > 1) Sucessful: The US sees itself as the sole champion of liberty and > listens even less to the rest of the world. "Look what would have happened > if we listened to you in Iraq. Who needs sidewalk superintendants?" > > 2) Failure: The US sees that intervention doesn't work, it stops pushing, > and sees its self interest as promoting Fortress America. When there is > trouble, like an invasion of one country by another, the US refuses to > intervene again. Of course, without the US to lead, nothing happens. > I would claim both (1) and (2) horrid failures. (1) will eventually turn the USA into _exactly_ what the worst USA-bashers believe they are now. What will be next? Depose the Saudi Tyranny? Invade Venezuela and replace Chavez by some employee of Texaco? Force India to give Cashmir to Pakistan? Alberto Monteiro [*] the Nostradamus of fiction, not the real guy who wrote so obsurely that anything can be taken from his crap _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
